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Re: Physics Quiz 4

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Originally Posted by Molten View Post
Agreed. Try solving such problems without making assumptions though. I've never had a professor explicitly spell out every detail of a problem. They always leave it up to the student to make a few assumptions. In a real world example, you never know all the details. Just learn what you can and do your best from there.

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Furthermore, in the 'real world', half the time we don't know what assumptions we're even making, yet somehow the work has to get done.
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